Albania

Telephone system:

about 55,000 telephones; about 15 telephones/1,000 persons

local:

primitive; about 11,000 telephones in Tirane, the capital city

intercity:

obsolete wire system; no longer provides a telephone for every village; in
1992, following the fall of the communist government, peasants cut the wire
to about 1,000 villages and used it to build fences

international:

inadequate; carried through the Tirane exchange and transmitted through
Italy on 240 microwave radio relay circuits and through Greece on 150
microwave radio relay circuits